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"I Believe in You and Me" is a song written by #SandyLinzer and #DavidWolfert in 1982. The song was first recorded and released by the #RAndB group #TheFourTops, who released it as a single from their album #OneMoreMountain (1982). While it failed to reach the US #Top40, it became a moderate hit for the group on the US #Billboard R&B chart, peaking at number 40 in early 1983. In 1996, R&B/pop singer #WhitneyHouston recorded a cover of the song for her film.
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Než se Four Tops dostali do Copacabany, přežili deset let klubů, vojnu, ztracené šance. Dokázali překonat i odchod autorského tria Holland–Dozier–Holland z Motownu. Jak se drží legenda Detroitu?
👉 Nový profil v rámci seriálu #SoundOfDetroit.
#Music #TheFourTops #Funk #Soul #DoporučenoPanemPudinkem
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Remembering Levi Stubbs from The Four Tops
(June 6, 1936-October 17, 2008)
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Privat Sammlung SängerInnen und Bands aus meinem Hirn entsprungen
Nicht käuflich! Kein Geschäft! Nur #Dada und Spaß!
By Meister Jeder 5/25 #AIart Reve #Musik #Jazz #Soul #Rock #ActionFigures #ManhattanTransfer #TheSupremes #TheFourTops #TheFugees -
#3GoodThings
1. Saw and heard #TheFourTops live yesterday.
2. No, those aren't the original (1953) members, all of whom have now passed on -- but the gentlemen now touring are R&B veterans of that vintage, belting out the familiar FourTops tunes.
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Happy Halloween! While I’m not dressing up in costume for an office party, I do feel the mood for spooky fun. I’ve got the house to myself while I work, so it’s time to crank some tunes!
First off is Skatune Network‘s Skalloween album, released in 2021. For those of you who don’t know who Skatune Network is, they are an incredible one person Ska band who arranges and performs Ska covers of our favorite video game, cartoon, and pop music. This 8 track album features music from Beetlejuice, appropriate with the sequel that just came out, to Scooby Doo, a cartoon which pretty much celebrated Halloween all the time. Skatune does an amazing job with all of their tracks, and they collaborate with other great artists on this album as well. I’ve made a YouTube playlist of the album below, but you can also find the album on Bandcamp (link) and on other streaming media platforms.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP4XUsocAKg-JEzqfmqKn2t1FEMaDWXyx&si=fPt5sAOZ5qWTr6-j
It’s a Halloween movie! It’s a Christmas movie!! IT’S BOTH!!! The Nightmare Before Christmas, released over 30 years ago, has one of the most iconic movie soundtracks which Danny Elfman ever wrote. As I observed when I wrote about this soundtrack for it’s 30th anniversary, it was the combination of Elfman’s amazing score with the voices of the actors which makes this soundtrack so successful. Elfman even provides the singing voice of Jack Skellington (speaking voice provided by Chris Sarandon, who also played Prince Humperdink in The Princess Bride)! I’ll admit, I’ll stop and listen to any song from this soundtrack whenever it comes up in my Plex, but I’ll always try to watch this movie on Halloween. This year, with the recent passing of Ken Page, the voice of Oogie Boogie, I’ll also be sure to raise a glass when his song comes up.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n3P6QbzwRveRljRWtG8nzdhLwKw0XfxEs&si=9pwBnL1iD1PClrae
Of course, we can’t have a Halloween playlist without some drum corps, so here’s the 1994 Bushwackers performing music from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
https://youtu.be/yEUOxjbGEzs?si=VAbxc1nDLd5PutGQ
On the twenty-third day of the month of September
In an early year of a decade not too long before our own
The human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence
And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do
In the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of placesSo began Alan Menken‘s and Howard Ashman‘s musical adaptation of the Roger Corman B movie classic, Little Shop of Horrors. The stage version made its way to the silver screen in 1986, and the gems from this soundtrack are plentiful. Steve Martin absolutely drills “You’ll Be A Dentist”, while Ellen Greene goes from tender wistfulness in “Somewhere That’s Green” to full out Broadway belting in the show stopping “Suddenly Semour”. Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops sets the standard as Audrey II, while Rick Moranis cemented his status as a comedy horror schlep as Seymour after his turn in Ghostbusters as Louis Tully. The movie is a joy to watch and the soundtrack is a joy to listen to.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6zRCxFyiWGRQH-F5wvejJx9wgc6kWtBa&si=xG9IWRjCaAuvrOTL
There’s one musical which has a special place in my heart that also fits with the season. That is The Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never quite fully explained. This was a musical I remember listening to multiple times while in high school along with all the theater kids I shared classes with. It was also one of the first drum corps shows I remember seeing live as the Santa Clara Vanguard performed it in 1988 at the Parma, Ohio, show. I would eventually go on to perform music from Phantom with the Empire Statesmen in 2000. This was also the first musical I would see performed live at the Palace Theater in Playhouse Square. It’s the 25th anniversary concert performance of Phantom which I listen to more than the original cast soundtrack, though, as I find the audio mix is much clearer and the performances of Sierra Boggess as Christine Daaé and Ramin Karimloo as, in my opinion, The Phantom are as powerful, if not more so, than Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford, plus there’s less of the campiness that the original version of Phantom had.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXfCGfEFi5PfZCNOG13HTJObGIXgYXVQ&si=kNY07qsCCCSdk0Xi
Here is the 1988 Santa Clara Vanguard performance of Phantom of the Opera:
https://youtu.be/RV6AaSqUXiQ?si=fKwxrGLQJF7gOEGV
And here is me with the 2000 Empire Statesmen performing Phantom:
https://youtu.be/dc8yZ_5yRzw?si=BFT-0kqcbPxhZBOc
https://medi-nerd.com/2024/10/31/2024-halloween-playlist/
#AlanMenken #Bandcamp #Beetlejuice #Bushwackers #ChrisSarandon #DannyElfman #EllenGreene #EmpireStatesmen #Ghostbusters #Halloween #HowardAshman #JackSkellington #KenPage #Kevin #LeviStubbs #LittleShopOfHorrors #Music #OogieBoogie #PalaceTheater #PlayhouseSquare #Plex #PrinceHumperdink #RickMoranis #RogerCorman #SantaClaraVanguard #ScoobyDoo #SierraBoggess #Skallowen #SkatuneNetwork #SteveMartin #TheFourTops #TheNightmareBeforeChristmas #ThePhantomOfTheOpera #ThePrincessBride #YouTube
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The Four Tops lost their last top yesterday.
R.I.P. Duke Fakir.
🎵 Loco In Acapulco by #TheFourTops
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@GottaLaff RIP Abdul 'Duke' Fakir.
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Abdul “Duke” Fakir Dies: The Four Tops’ Last Surviving Member Was 88
#News #Obituaries #AbdulDukeFakir #MotownRecords #TheFourTopshttps://deadline.com/2024/07/abdul-duke-fakir-dead-the-four-tops-1236017990/
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🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
The Four Tops:
🎵 Reach Out I'll Be Therehttps://open.spotify.com/track/6Pkj4nv5K53i64cLVgkVyY
https://tupikor.bandcamp.com/track/four-tops-reach-out-ill-be-there-tupiko-r-i-prefer-the-original-edit
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🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TonyBlackburnsGoldenHour
The Four Tops:
🎵 It's The Same Old Songhttps://open.spotify.com/track/3VuPkjOfLnzGjRNdAgbl7B
https://retrosoundwave.bandcamp.com/track/four-tops-its-the-same-old-song-ext-intro-remix
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#ListeningTo
"Meeting Of The Minds"
by #TheFourTops
https://invidious.jing.rocks/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lzCqO4jH07jAWKjxKeJVIM8O_AT4xQKWo
Released #1974
#ThanksFolks! -
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheZoeBallBreakfastShow
The Four Tops:
🎵 Reach Out I'll Be Therehttps://open.spotify.com/track/6Pkj4nv5K53i64cLVgkVyY
https://tupikor.bandcamp.com/track/four-tops-reach-out-ill-be-there-tupiko-r-i-prefer-the-original-edit
#Bandcamp -
Eddie Holland (born October 30, 1939) of the Motown songwriting team Holland–Dozier–Holland ("Heat Wave," "Where Did Our Love Go," "Baby Love," "Stop! In the Name of Love," "Nowhere to Run," "You Can't Hurry Love," "Reach Out I'll Be There," "You Keep Me Hangin' On," "Band of Gold," and other songs) #EddieHolland #Motown #music #songwriter #BOTD #HollandDozierHolland #MarthaAndTheVandellas #TheSupremes #TheFourTops
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CW: Only Connect
Don't agree with Victoria's choice of best act in that selection.
Absolutely loved The Four Tops, especially their slimmed-down look at the 1989 Brit awards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0eCHFgzSQk
#TheFourTops #OnlyConnect #Brits #TotalCockup -
You're sweet as a 🍯🐝
but like a 🍯🐝 stings
you've gone & left my 🫀 in pain
All you left is our favorite 📀
the one we 💃🕺 to all night long
It used to bring sweet memories
of a tender 🥰 that used to be
Now It's the Same Old Song
but with a diff'rent meaning
since you been gone
HDH
#TheFourTops
9 Jul 1965
#popmusic #Motown #1960s -
Bernadette, people are searching for
The kind of love that we possessed
Some go on searching their whole life through
& never find the love I've found in you
& when I speak of you
I see envy in other men's eyes
& I'm well aware
of what's on their minds
They pretend to be my friend
When all the time
They long to persuade you
from my side
They'd give the world and all they own
For just one moment we have known
Holland-Dozier-Holland
#TheFourTops
16 Feb 1967
#pop #music #Motown #1960s -
I've been murdering Four Tops songs all afternoon. A benefit of working from home for me and also my work colleagues as they don't have to hear me sing (it ain't good, trust me) as I tap away on the laptop.
I love the Four Tops. Levi's voice is just so good.
Here's a little 'Ask the Lonely' Live in Paris 67.
"They'll tell you a story of sadness,
A story too hard to believe...
They'll tell you the loneliest one is me..." -
#Thefourtops - I can't help myself
Have seen the three tops live at Batley Frontier along time ago now.
